Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>:
> Subject: Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions
> 
> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > 3. When I switch to X (CTRL-ALT-F7), X hangs after drawing a couple of windows
> > >    after waiting for some 10 min, I rebooted. no new messages showed 
> > >    up in /var/log/messages
> > 
> > I think this is likely just more of the disk being buggered, but it 
> > could again be related to NO_HZ (people report time not advancing, and 
> > that would make any X timeout taking forever, and you'd see exactly 
> > your behaviour).
> 
> Michael - does your 'date' output advance after resume? If not then i'd 
> say it's a NO_HZ related problem. If yes then i'd guess it's the SATA 
> problem.

I'll test, but I have NO_HZ off for now.

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